Columbia professor's anti-U.S. military call...

CNN.com ^ | 03/28/2003 | Associated Press

[bdeaner]

Here is what one student had to say about him:

"I lost all respect for this man as an academic when he said this spring that Jews no longer have any claim to the heritage of the Holocaust because of Israeli policy towards Palestinians. While at first this seems like a personal attack on my part, it is an academic criticism, and here`s why. Professors are responsible for taking ideas and analyzing them, cutting them down to their roots and components, no matter how simple those ideas are at the surface. De Genova does the reverse: he takes the Mideast Conflict, a sophisticated topic by any standards (even those outspoken Palestinian advocates like Professor Massad) and simplifies it by comparing Israeli policy to Nazi policy. Furthermore, he does so despite the fact that he is not an expert in this area, but rather in Latin American studies. In my view, that makes de Genova an irresponsible and unsophisticated academic. I won`t take his classes now, but not because I don`t like him or even because I disagree with him, but because I don`t trust him to give me a complete, fully-analyzed picture of the issues."

Read more reviews of this a-hole here.

[John Valentine]

I'd like to see him "removed" from the staff.

I'd like to see him "removed".

[AmericanMade1776]

Ron Lewenberg and Columbia College Conservative Club, may the force be with you!!!

[LiteKeeper]

WHAAAAAAAT?

[FairOpinion]

Name: NICHOLAS PAUL DE GENOVA
Title: ASST PROF
Dept: ANTHROPOLOGY
Mail Addr: DEPT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
416 HAMILTON
mail code 2880
Phone: MS 4-0199
+1 212-854-0199
Fax: +1 212-854-0500
UNI: npd18
EMail: npd18@columbia.edu



And the President of Columbia University:

Name: LEE C BOLLINGER
Title: PRESIDENT PROFESSOR
Dept: OFFICE OF PRESIDENT
SCHOOL OF LAW
Mail Addr: 202 LOW LIBRARY
mail code 4309
Phone: MS 4-9970
+1 212-854-9970
UNI: lcb50
EMail: bollinger@columbia.edu


From: http://www.columbia.edu/

Columbia University in the City of New York
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-6902
(212) 854-1754

[FairOpinion]

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/27/3e82ec7193097?in_archive=1

Thanks for the link. This De Genova guy is beyond despicable. Here is an excerpt from the article, the link to which you posted, for those who may not take the trouble to click on the link:

Excerpt:
"One of the most divisive issue among the participants was patriotism. An exchange over the subject was sparked by Nicholas DeGenova, a professor of anthropology who was a last-minute addition to the program.

"Peace is not patriotic," DeGenova began. "Peace is subversive, because peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live--a world where the U.S. would have no place."

"U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," he said. "U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military."

Between DeGenova's condemnation of patriotism and his call for "fragging"--"I wish," he said, "for a million Mogadishus"--his speech provoked many of the professors who spoke later in the night to assert their disagreement."

[Kay Soze]

Click here to review this professor.

[Mystix]

This guy is retarded, he's going to get a million messages from Marines in Okinawa if I have anything to say about it :)

[photogirl]

What a freak

[Imal]

Emblematic of the decline and fall of western academia.

A proud tradition of the preservation and pursuit of knowledge and truth has been destroyed by a generation of bleating, opinionated idiots.

Another disastrous legacy of evil brought to you by the simian memetic virus named Karl Marx.

[Orlando]

The University of America has been taken over by sleeper cells on all levels. The Puerto Rican people are FIGHTING
with our Brothers & Sisters. We have over 1,500 troops from
Puerto Rico in the FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES ! These communists/
Terrorist sleeper in your schools don't speak for us.
-----
Also remember we have been FIGHTING alongside YOU, since World War 1.
Puerto Rico is the ONLY Latino country(semi-51st State)
that is PRESENT !!!
Read between those lines.

[Hobsonphile]

Leftism on Campus ping!

If you would like to be added to the Leftism on Campus ping list, please
notify me via FReep-mail.

Regards...

[MikalM]

Orlando,

By my comment, I was implicating *Reconquista* types, who are a small but dangerous minority of Mexican-Americans.

I am aware of the Puerto Rican -- and by extension -- Latino/Hispanic peoples' immense contributions and sacrifices for our country. Rest assured, you are brother and sister Americans, and no disrespect at all to you was intended.

[John Frum]

touche' - right on the MONEY!

[FairOpinion]

Thanks. I got the info from the directory at the Univesity website. Maybe they were getting too many faxes and disconnected that fax. I wouldn't be surprised.